An Iraqi asylum seeker in Britain allegedly tried to join ISIS after six months because he did not like living in Sheffield, a court has heard.

Shivan Hayder Azeez Zanagana, 20, known as Aziz, lived with his brother in South Yorkshire between November 2015 and May this year, when he was arrested.

Aziz is said to have become homesick and missed his mother and siblings.

Aziz, who appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Friday, left Iraq after being injured in a car bomb explosion and entered the UK illegally in September, having travelled via Italy.

Zanagana travelled to Sheffield (pictured) to live in November 2015 but could not settle and wanted to return to Iraq amd join ISIS, it is alleged

He went to live with his brother in Sheffield in November but allegedly soon began planning to return to Iraq and join ISIS with Aras Mohammed Hamid.

Hamid, 26, an asylum seeker who had been in the UK for eight years, is also suspected of trying to smuggle himself out of Britain to join Daesh.

Hamid was discovered in the back of a lorry at Dover on May 19 while Aziz bought a plane ticket using his Iraqi passport, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The pair are accused of plotting to return to northern Iraq and join a Kurdish group who are fighting alongside ISIS (pictured)

Zanagana and Hamid are charged under terrorism laws of plotting to join the Salahaddin Battalion, a Kurdish group fighting alongside ISIS.

Ahmad Ismail, 18, has been charged with failing to inform the authorities of Hamid's alleged intentions.

He was arrested at the al-Noor mosque in Birmingham on May 17.

Ismail was arrested at his home in Coventry on May 22.

Aziz is charged with one count of preparing for acts of terrorism contrary to section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.

Hamid is charged with one count of preparing for acts of terrorism, one count of assisting Aziz to prepare for an act of terrorism, and one count of possessing a false identity document.

Ismail is accused of failing to disclose information to police of an offence involving the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism, contrary to section 38b of The Terrorism Act 2000.

All three men appeared at Westminster Magistrate Court on Friday and were committed for trial at the Old Bailey later this year.